This is Virgile's most precious wine. It’s the 2021 vintage of the first ever wine that he made.

And Virgile tells me it’s exactly the wine that he dreamed of making, when he started on his long and illustrious winemaking journey back in 2000.

It’s from the tiny Saint-Saturnin appellation, in the southern hills of the Terrasses du Larzac. This region is home to the Languedoc’s most exciting (and expensive!) wines.

It’s a bit cooler than most of the Languedoc up here. So the Grenache, Carignan and Syrah grapes ripen with great freshness and flavour.

You also get serious structure and tannins - which only soften and mellow with the most precious ingredient of them all - time.

No expense or detail is spared in the making of this wine. 

The grapes are carefully hand-picked and hand-sorted, it’s vinified in his new state-of-art winery, and aged in the finest French oak he can get his hands on.

The nose leaps out of the glass with aromas of pure black fruit, pepper and wild herbs, while the palate is dark, rich and powerful, but it has a lovely freshness and elegance to it too.

So if you like the power and ripeness of a good Rhône, with the complexity and structure of a Bordeaux, then you should try this wine!